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...many a U. S. stadium. Biggest and most pompous ever was Cleveland's last summer, in which more than 1,000 performers (including the animals) figured (TIME, Aug. 10). Washington had an Aïda last fortnight, presented by that seasoned Aïda-man, Maestro Alfredo Salmaggi. In New York's big Polo Grounds Maestro Salmaggi presented successive null at $1 top price, culminating in 1930 with one in which there were elephants as well as camels and horses (TIME, July 28,1930). Aiming to exploit music "on a basis consistent with the dignity of grand opera...
Next week Manhattanites may expect to see billboards and subway placards advertising "Opera at the Polo Grounds." Impresario Alfredo Salmaggi will offer Aida in New York's big baseball park on Aug. 2, second annual presentation. Last year's outdoor Aida drew crowds who cannot afford Metropolitan opera seats, can afford Polo Ground opera at $1. Encouraged by success, Maestro Salmaggi has swelled this year's cast to 1,000, has added three camels, three elephants, eight horses to the Egyptian props. Impressive in the big concrete stadium will be vocal choruses, troupes of dancers, parades in full oriental pomp...
Bushy-haired, Rome-born Maestro Sal-maggi has presented grand opera for many a year. Great & good friend of the late Enrico Caruso ("with him I was like a brother"), onetime mandolin teacher to the late Italian Queen Margherita, all his life a musician & music promoter, Maestro Salmaggi nevertheless has no love for an age that has reduced music largely to phonographs, radios. Feeling no musician can avoid the temptation of thus being reproduced he cries with Latin vehemence: "I would rather have a boy of mine [he is nine times a father] be a barber than a musician. Anybody?...
Pietro will be accompanied by Giuseppe Radaelli, Agostino Capuzzo, Rino Dldrati, Irma Vigano, Maria Lecer-Casale, Adriana Boccanera, Enrico Nani, Francesco Novelli and Luciana Donaggio, singers. Signers Alfredo Salmaggi and Antonio Ferrara have already arrived as couriers and business managers...